Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
My rating: 4/5 cats
donald harington recommended this book to me and now that he’s gone, i can’t even talk about it with him, and that is what i was thinking the whole time i was reading this book. if i hadn’t had to read it for school, i would have waited until the other two books in the trilogy were published, so i could have had at them all at once, but again, school screws up my plans. it’s an amazingly quick read—i was under the impression that i was supposed to have it read for yesterday’s class so i zipped through it in a day and a half, which is way quicker than i read the known world; a less fun, and much shorter, book also for class. this book is just more vibrant—it, too, is a sprawling narrative with a huge list of characters, but this one has pirates, and drugs and a man growing boobs, so it’s more familiar territory than slave-owning, for me. (shortest “review” ever, i know [you’re welcome, dana]) but i have to get back to my stupid paper about collection development and somehow write at least 5 more pages on a topic i feel i have already exhausted.
cliffs notes for this review: it is fun and good. read it.
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